Peanut Butter Popcorn

Peanut Butter Popcorn is a quick and easy favorite treat at our house! Perfect for family movie nights or a yummy treat to take to a friend or neighbor.

Peanut Butter Popcorn is so yummy! This quick and easy popcorn is a favorite around our house. Perfect for family movie nights or when I need a quick treat to take to a friend or neighbor.

How to Gift Popcorn

To make this a gift, just put in a clear plastic bag and tie on a cute ribbon! You can make it look fancier by melting a little chocolate and drizzling it over the popcorn after it has cooled. You can put it in a plastic baggie or a take-out style box from a craft store. If making for kids, you can press the popcorn into a ball and put it on a popsicle stick. So many possibilities here!

Fun Additions to Peanut Butter Popcorn

As mentioned above, you can drizzle some chocolate over the popcorn to give it some added flavor and to make it look pretty. Some other great additions are M&M’s, chopped candy bar (Butterfinger is awesome), or white or dark chocolate chips. Tastes so yummy with additions!

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This is nearly the same goo that my mom always poured over corn flakes. It was my favorite candy! Her version was a cup of sugar (not brown), cup of corn syrup, cup of peanut butter. Then corn flakes instead of popcorn. I like to press the whole mixture into a 9×13 dish lined with waxed paper and sprayed lightly with Pam. Now you have another way to eat it if you like, and I’ll try your way. 🙂

Your recipe reminded me that MY Mom used to make this with corn flakes! I had totally forgotten! It was at least 65 years ago, so it isn’t unusual to forget, so I’m happy that you gave me that memory back!!

I made this, but happened to be out of corn syrup. I substituted 1 cup sugar mixed with 1/4 cup water. I don’t know if that was the cause ir what, but it turned out grainy and didn’t really stick to the popcorn very well. I am going to try again after going to the grocery store.

Trick of the day: If you take plain un-popped popcorn (the kind you would cook on a stove top) and put about 1/4 cup in a plain brown bag (like a lunch bag) and fold over the top like 3 times and put it in the microwave on high it will pop and you will have PLAIN, UN-SALTED popcorn in about 3-5 minutes. NOW you MUST stay and listen to the popping as it slows down to 1-2 kernels a second because that’s the time to take it out as all microwaves are different but other then that, its cheap and it WORKS as I have tried it!

I made this last night…the taste was fantastic, but it was impossible to mix into the popcorn. The peanut butter sauce was quite thick and sticky. It definitely didn’t look pretty like yours…any idea what went wrong? I’d love to get it right!

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